New Crop of Gardening Books
Cater to the Organic and the Lazy

By

June Fletcher

Updated May 29, 2008 11:03 a.m. ET

A new crop of gardening books is appearing in stores:

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate by Wendy Johnson (Bantam, 2008). This book enchants from the first chapter, where the author recounts her first time in the garden intently planting a row of corn -- only to look up and find that a blue jay had eaten every seed.

One of the founders of the organic farm and garden program at Green Gulch Zen Center in Marin County, Calif., Ms....